Lomography Smartphone Scanner: Review & giveaway

Lomography got in touch to offer me a review product, which I could then give away to one of you lovely readers. Rather than pick a camera I was rather more intrigued by their Smartphone Film Scanner…

This nifty gadget lets you scan 35mm films directly into your phone just using the phone’s camera, so they’re ready to share immediately. The adaptable device works with any iPhone and most Android phones, and you can scan regular 35mm, panoramic, or Lomokino films.

It’s extremely easy to use. Just feed the film into the bottom and load your phone onto the clamp at the top. Turn the dial to advance the film, snap, and repeat. There’s something quite magical about being able to view your photos this way and ‘release’ them from the negatives so quickly. It works particularly well with iOS7’s super new camera improvements.

These were taken straight off my phone with no editing:

You can also take the photos with a digital camera instead of the smartphone, for a higher res scan. These were taken with my camera through the device, again with no editing:

Competition now closed, thanks to all who entered and to Lomography for the prize

wow, this looks so much smoother than i imagined it to be! really lovely snaps too :)

my fave photo is from my diana mini on my last night out at uni- the camera was being passed around & we were all pulling stupid faces. two half frame shots were taken first of my boyfriend, and then of me; the split isn’t perfect and the lighting is pretty bad, but the looks on our faces are amazing and i love the way they merged together! xx

I’d LOVE to win!
I took photo’s with my dianaF+ on my weddingday during our photoshoot. The camera was used as a prop for photos, but I shot a few of my husband. The wedding was not long ago and the film is still unprocessed and in my camera, so my favorite photo is still in there!

What an AMAZING thing, this has blown my mind! I’ve recently been going through all our family photographs and trying to psych myself up for scanning all my analogue photos in and wondering what to do about the negatives…problem solved with this! Wow.

My favourite analogues were a series of photos taken at an end-of-year ball a couple of years ago at university. Whilst I was off on the dancefloor my friends were playing the ‘expressions game’ – the person taking the photo shouts out a scenario and takes a photo of the other guys’ response. Examples include ‘just been arrested’, ‘won the lottery’, ‘got food poisoning’. I had no idea they were doing this with my camera so it made for great viewing when I got the photos back and had to request an explanation from my friends!

This is such a nifty idea, and would definitely motivate me to shoot on film more! I think my favourite analogue photos are the ones I took on my Diana F+ in Iceland. You can’t really go wrong with moody photographs of icebergs!

The best camera I ever owned came to me via a childhood birthday present. It was in the shape of a penguin who had dawned a yellow and red striped hat (naturally). In my excitement I took some terrible/memorable snaps of my mum in a darkened cafe, my barbie having a bath in a jam jar and my all time favourite my disgruntled upstairs neighbour cutting the grass.

One of my favourite photos has to be of my little boy, about seven months old. I was getting him ready for bed and was pulling his tshirt off when the phone rang. Really absent-mindedly, I grabbed the phone, and when I looked back at my boy his tshirt was arranged like a little towel turban which was just sooo funny! :)

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I love this thing! My favorite photo is the first I took with my dad’s old Pentax K1000 after thought it was broken for years… What a wonderful feeling! it was in Barcelona, my hometown.
Nice website, keep going!

My favourite camera was bought in 1982 when I was 7, from a local chemist for 99p – I took countless pictures of donkeys and grey skies on our family holiday to Skegness that summer. The photographs were square and I still hope to find the camera when I look through old boxes of junk in the loft. The photos and negatives are around too; lovely memories.

Oo this looks very nifty indeed! I took some nice actionsampler pics on a recent holiday with friends – made people do jumps/waving arms for just about every photo so the four shots would be different. Always good fun. I shall retweet too…

One of my favourite photos is from Paris last year on my work Christmas trip.. there was a big ferris wheel, and I swear it was a fluke really, but I’m left with the most amazing photo of the ferris wheel thanks to a lovely Diana+

My favourite analogue photo is of the striped deckchairs in Brighton, taken with my trusty La Sardina beach edition. It isn’t just that I like the photo, but I made the trip to Brighton as a farewell weekend with my sister who was moving to another country, so it reminds me of family, holidays and sunshine! The magic of analogue!

My favourite analogue photo was taken last summer on probably the warmest day that i remember. My best friend was leaving to go back to germany the next day so we packed a picnic, drove an hour north and sat at a lighthouse overlooking the sea for the entire day. My favourite photo is of her using two carrot sticks to pretend she was a walrus and laughing her head off. It’s the perfect memory of a perfect day. I wish i had have had this scanner to scan it!

the most fun I had was taking out my diana with a redscale film in, I don’t know whether it was because it was a very foggy day, or the light leaks from the camera, but the photos looked like an acid trip.

This looks great, I’d love to have a play with it. My favourite photo was taken was a few years back in Japan using my Holga. A happy accident of about five exposures on top of each other. http://www.flickr.com/photos/clo_101/3678839171/ – Memories of a great holiday :)

I moved to London 9 months ago, from Canada and found your blog. Your many pictures have inspired me to explore more with my analogue camera and my canon slr. I have captured so many memories and design ideas with these pictures. Over the years, I have done a lot of darkroom work. I have many 35mm negatives which I have been wanting to make them digital. This would be such an amazing gift for my dad since I share so many print photos with him via post. This would make my negatives reach him faster and warm his heart. Thank you for this opportunity.
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